Process improvement and utilization of machines in the production area of a shoe manufacturing company

Process Improvement is an aspect of organizational development in which a series of actions are taken by a process owner or process analyst to identify, analyze and improve existing business processes within an organization for optimization and to meet new quotas or standards of quality. The shoe industry in Marikina City which is the shoe capital of the Philippines is lagging behind its neighboring countries in East and Southeast Asia in terms of shoe production. This paper aims to increase the productivity of a shoe manufacturing company by utilizing the machines in the production area, improving the process layout, and ensuring quality is present in every element of the shoe making process. Analysis tools are utilized to analyze the existing business process such as Ishikawa diagram, time and motion study, flow process chart, ISO flow process, statistical computation, process layout, and cost benefit analysis. The results show that the proposed layout machine will have an increase in production output by 13.11%. This paper recommends the following; (1) the improvement of time (12.54% faster) and distance (208.80% shorter) of each process giving way to a new layout. (2) Introduction of new machines that will speed up the production while maintaining the quality.